Film Screening: "Home" Documentary

In October 2020, filmmakers Adam Lipsius and Minyoung Sohn set out to capture the voices of Denverites during a time when COVID-19 had reshaped the ways people could connect. Their goal was simple: to listen, to hold space for stories, and to learn what mattered most to people in that moment.

What emerged from these conversations was a theme too urgent to ignore—the realities of Denver’s unhoused community.

Over months of filming, they spoke with more than one hundred unhoused individuals, meeting them in spaces like the 16th Street Mall, Civic Center Park, and along the Broadway corridor. Again and again, a common thread surfaced: the absence of support and security during youth, and how those missing foundations reverberate throughout a lifetime.

By 2024, nearly 800,000 people were living on the streets in America—an increase of 23% from the year before. Rising costs of living, substance use, mental health challenges, and gaps in access to resources all contribute to today’s housing crisis. Yet many of these struggles can be traced back to childhood—shaped by unstable or unsafe homes, or the absence of one altogether.

Home shares these stories with honesty and compassion. This intimate documentary offers glimpses into day-to-day survival, the battles within, and the sparks of progress and hope that remind us of our collective responsibility. It challenges us to ask: What is nurture, and what happens when it’s missing? How can we, as a society, provide safety, belonging, and care for our youth? And when those supports are absent at home, how can we step in—together—to be the foundation that every child deserves?

All ticket proceeds will be donated to Dry Bones, a long-standing community of support among Denver’s unhoused teens and young adults. The Colorado-based non-profit has a simple but radical belief that companionship itself can be profoundly transformative. So alongside helping to meet emotional, spiritual, and physical needs, their true work is practicing the way of Jesus through building ongoing relationships that remind the invisible among us of their immeasurable worth.

Host or Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art Denver